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Old 10-08-2007
Tethys Tethys is offline
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Re: Beep…beep… beep - Fifty years since Sputnik.

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Originally Posted by Speakeasy View Post
A little something to show just how far mankind has come in our journey into space (from Popular Science, August, 1933):


Link to full article and scans of original pages
I could not read the article, but it sounds interesting. I love all that historical stuff. …it is probably not in a format readable by my screen reader. Any chance of obtaining it as a text file?

Anyway, at the talk I attended, Dr McCracken talked about how flights to the Moon had to be timed to avoid sun spot effects. This would be a bigger challenge for any manned mission to Mars, where apparently the windows for a safe voyage could be around 11 years apart. Talk about missing the bus!

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